Tuesday, April 19, 2011

"Grilled Cheesus"



I just find this episode a little comical because it is all based on Finn finding the face of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich and how he prays for it for help. He prays that the football team will win a football game, that he can touch Rachel's boobs, and that he can be made quarterback, all of his prayers are answered haha.
On a more serious note Kurt's dad is injured and each of the Glee members pray for them in their own way. I think this is cool because we are able to see how all different religions sing praises to God. Rachel is able to sing a Jewish song and Merecedes sings a catholic song. It even shows someone who has no faith at all, which is Kurt. He says that God made him gay and then God has his followers going around preaching that it is his choice to be Gay and why would he choose to be gay and to choose to be mocked every single day. His faith on this episode is the relationship between him and his father. I like that Glee is teaching the viewers about other peoples belief systems.
They also bring up the topic of separation of church and state. Basically Sue says it is inappropriate to sing church songs at school if one student doesn't want to, which the principal agrees with and no longer allows Glee to sing praises to God in school. This upsets many of the Glee kids because they feel they should be able to share how they feel. This is a very contemporary issue that Glee brought up because many schools still struggle with the problem, especially in Utah. A lot of people can relate to this topic in Utah because of the prominent church in it and how there isn't a very big separation of church and state. So I can see how this episode might cause some serious controversies. I think it is brave of Glee to bring up so many controversial issues such as this because people can get very offended when it comes to religion.

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